Category Archives: Maths

Using Goal Seek on Multiple Cells

Posted on 25/07/2009 by dougaj4

The Excel “goal seek” function is useful and powerful, but the procedure for using it on multiple cells is painfully slow. The spreadsheet GSeek.xls provides a simple macro to allow Goal Seek to be automatically applied to a range of … Continue reading →

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Two new functions for IP.xls

Posted on 18/07/2009 by dougaj4

Edit 8 Feb 2012: The functions described below have been superseded by new versions which are described at https://newtonexcelbach.wordpress.com/2009/08/18/finding-circle-centres-in-3d/.  That link also gives a description (with diagrams!) of how the functions work.  The download file for the new versions is … Continue reading →

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More on cubic splines

Posted on 12/07/2009 by dougaj4

Link to Cubic Spline Update The previous two posts used cubic splines with the “natural” end condition, that is with an end curvature of zero.  To apply the cubic spline to analysis of continuous beams with different end conditions we … Continue reading →

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Continuous beam analysis with cubic splines

Posted on 05/07/2009 by dougaj4

The last example in the previous post illustrated the use of cubic splines to find the bending moments in a continuous beam subject to prescribed lateral displacements.  A similar technique can be used to find bending moments, shear forces, reactions, … Continue reading →

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A catenary function

Posted on 25/06/2009 by dougaj4

Following on from the previous post, here is an Excel User Defined Function (UDF) to calculate the coordinates of any specified catenary, with the option of also finding the tension force at any point. Download from: Catenary.zip The download file … Continue reading →

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